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I Tried to Join the Two Databases Myself and Got Two Thirds of the Way
Permitted wetland losses in this state are recorded in one system, by permit number, with an acreage. Compensatory wetlands — the ones created or restored to offset those losses — are recorded in a…
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The Meeting Minutes Stop in March and That Is the Document
The minute book for the Hollis County Board of Education runs from 1889 to 1961, in four volumes, in a climate-controlled room in the basement of a courthouse annex. The handwriting changes six tim…
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The Map of Air Quality Is a Map of Where the Monitors Are
The continuous ambient monitoring station nearest to the block I was working in that year was one hundred and ten kilometres away, in a city, in a compound with a gate. The block has about two hund…
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Three Years of a Structural Change Went Into the Seasonal Factor
The seasonally adjusted number came in at a level everyone described as steady. The unadjusted number for that month was the weakest for that month in eleven years. Both are published. One of them …
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The List Was Written in June and the Election Was in November
The exit poll asked which issue mattered most to your vote and offered seven options. I have the instrument in front of me. The seven were drafted in June, tested in July, and fielded in November, …
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The Gauge Has Been Broken Since 2018 and the Model Still Uses It
Station 04185000 sits on a concrete pier under a county road bridge in northwest Ohio, and it has been reporting stage height every fifteen minutes since 1974. In April 2018 a piece of agricultural…
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The School Ends at Sixteen and the Road Only Goes One Way
The school in the village goes to class ten. Class eleven and twelve — what everybody calls plus two — are in the town, which is two and a half hours by bus when the road is open and is not always …
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Nobody Owns the Number That Kills a Third of Our Signups
Our signup funnel loses thirty-four percent of users between the phone-number screen and the verified screen. That number has been between thirty and thirty-eight percent for the entire time I have…
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Artificial Intelligence: The Technology Changing the World Around Us
Artificial intelligence has moved from the pages of science fiction into the center of everyday life. Not long ago, AI was something most people associated with futuristic robots, research laboratories, or complicated computer systems. Today, it is helping people write
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The Inquiry Was Asked About Events After the Fourteenth
The terms of reference for the inquiry run to a page and a half. It is a document of a kind Indian commissions of inquiry have been constituted by for seventy-five years, and the operative clause a…
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